Martinair Cargo put money aside for departing pilots – Yahoo! News

Martinair Cargo reduces due to overcapacity its fleet in June 2016 and will continue with only four Boeing 747 freighters

In September 2014, Air France-KLM / Martinair Cargo announced it will reduce all the necessary freighter capacity in its network, to the loss-making cargo operations profitable again. Both KLM and Martinair Cargo have the consequences of this decision be discussed with both councils.

The decision affects about 330 employees, of which 170 basis functions in the Netherlands, 50 soil functions overseas, and 110 pilots functions. “For the 110 pilots is not a solution at hand,” said Executive Vice President KLM Cargo Marcel de Nooijer at a press conference at Schiphol. “And there will also cover redundancies.”

“Financial condition of the water come to the lips, we are currently in a difficult process and should be very critical,” adds KLM’s Chief Operating Officer Rene de Groot to. Martinair cargo pilots are therefore not on the passenger flights with KLM. “Pilots for Martinair cost three times as much as a new intake pilots at KLM,” says De Groot. EUR220.000 is the average annual salary of a pilot Martinair. “It saves between EUR10 million and EUR15 million in annual structural labor” in dismissal of the Martinair pilots, instead of switching to KLM.

For a number of voluntary pilots Martinair Cargo is the last time measures, with some pilots have made the transition to Transavia.

For now leave Martinair pilots applies a severance payment of two years’ salary. “To some extent, all provisions made in 2014,” says the head of KLM Cargo. “Furthermore, here in the next two years certainly EUR35 million are involved,” said De Nooijer, who arrived 30 minutes later at the press conference, after giving the news to his staff Monday.

the ground staff, the company will make the utmost efforts for redeployment within the KLM Group with existing tools, which will possibly be extended with a voluntary redundancy scheme.

Air France-KLM / Martinair Cargo continues from 2016 with a cargo fleet operate six full Freighters: two Boeing 777F in Paris Charles De Gaulle and four Boeing 747-400 freighters from Schiphol, plus the cargo holds of 15 Boeing 747 Combi aircraft operated by KLM

RTL. Z / Dow Jones